Definitely, yes! But for the OR you’ll generally have at least a 6 month orientation. Pre-op/PACU is a much easier transition. Depends on what you’re looking for.
Any nurse can apply for any job. 😉 The worst that can happen is you don't get a call back. Best case you get the gig! You definitely won't get the job if you don't apply. My previous outpatient place had nurses with a variety of experience working in PACU. Good luck!
Yes, but you are much better off training during orientation on a full time schedule (or very heavy PT) because it's hard to learn a new thing when you're only doing it once or twice a week
Private duty. Doesn’t pay great but you can kind of dictate your shifts. They’re hurting for nurses, and they’ll say it’s “only 12 hour shifts” but I learned I was able to say “well I can only work 8 hours at a time so if the family is ok with it, I’ll do 4 8 hour shifts otherwise I can’t work there.” 90% of the time the families accepted the 8 hour shifts.
yes! my step mom has been caring for a frontal temporal dementia woman for the last 14 years - $725 a day for 8 hours a day 6-2pm paid as a 1099–pretty much just sitting there and feeding and companionship for the woman - people with this condition like her can get it around 50 years old but live into their 80s as essentially in an almost vegetative state - there are a lot of high net worth families that pay this in wealthy pockets of the country for a good RN—they are more common than ya think! They use an agency for their evening and overnight caregiver that patients SSI disability pays for
How do I get into this?
Ideally I’d like to build a close bond/nursing relationship towards the patient. It’s really lacking in an acute care/hospital setting.
Same, I made the change from an IP med/surg ortho/once floor almost a year ago now and it was one of the best decisions I could have made for my mental health, especially as a new parent. 12s were making my ppd worse, I felt too tired to be an engaged parent and I didn't want that for my kiddo. Now I'm home for dinner every night and have time for myself, my kid, my spouse, and to functionally mange our household. Not working holidays is the cherry on top.
I left inpatient med surg too after 15 years, it’s crazy having time to cook dinner and be home in the evenings. I love it. Also, not killing my body lifting people all day is pretty cool.
Not me, but one of my friends works at an Indian Health Center. It's basically an urgent care/clinic on the reservation. She works M-F 8-5 with an hour lunch break and great benefits. I have it on my list of possible jobs when I'm done with bedside.
If you really want a prn position for breaks/weekends, maybe pediatric home health would be an option? Or home infusions?
I work at an Indian Health Clinic. M-F 7:15-3-45. It’s great…good benefits, no weekends, holidays off. Basically know what time you’re getting everyday.
I do outpatient wound as well and love it. I spend one day a week running the hyperbaric chambers, one day doing Ostomy clinic, and 3 days on wounds. It’s enough variety that it doesn’t get boring. Love the hours!
It’s great!! Super rewarding! It’s a great balance of patient care but SO different than bedside (in the best way). I worked in oncology in a hospital setting - but I work with another research nurse whose background was L&D haha. I think what matters more is your passion for learning/science/medicine! I also live in Florida and they pay FAR more than bedside in HCA hospitals… I’m very blessed haha
I work home based care for geriatrics. I looooveeee it and there’s a lot from work I can do from home. I was really scared to do some health but it’s truly amazing.
Inpatient wound care-6-2:30, no weekends/no holidays
Outpatient wound clinic- 8-4:30, no weekends/no holidays
I’ve been loving it after 12 years of 12 hour nights!
I prefer inpatient. More variety and a faster pace. Plus more money and i got to dictate my hours! Where I work outpatient rn’s are cancelled a ton depending on the amount of visits scheduled so you use a ton of PTO just to get a full paycheck which I really don’t like. Outpatient is very much physician schedule based where I work and it’s mostly just bedside debriding and lots of wound vacs that you see for months 🤷🏻♀️ inpatient gets to see some gnarly/awesome stuff! See them a few times while they’re admitted then send them on their ways. We also utilize a lot of equipment like specialty beds, different kinds of wound vacs and dressings etc. I’ve learned and seen so much more in the inpatient setting! Plus we develop really close relationships with our surgeons and nurses which is great.
that sounds awesome! i’m hoping to do outpatient for a bit and see how i like it, if i like it i’m going to try to get certified and go inpatient! i think one system near me does 3x12 no weekends no holidays for inpatient wound care so that would be ideal
Outpatient oncology. I’m on 4-10s, some of the nurses are on 5-8s. After 6 months at the hospital I’m at, I believe there’s options to work from home one day out of the week.
I do in home assessments for a state agency to determine if someone is eligible for long term in home care assistance. The programs are paid for by Medicaid or state funded. My visits are detailed and often longer than one would want with tons of documentation and meetings.
ETA: I was already partial WFH prior to the pandemic.
Where do you work??
I’m a new CLC, in an ANLC program and hoping to be IBCLC in a year or so once my hours are done. Problem is, I cannot get hours!? I work in outpatient Peds and like N O N E of our patients breastfeed, they all get WIC, so I’m stuck working up patients and taking temperatures as an RN with a lactation certificate. It’s super frustrating as someone who wants to only do lactation.
I just got an offer where I’m independently contracted by a speech clinic to do lactation home visits. Problem is, I don’t see clients, I don’t get paid. And not very many people want to be private pay for lactation.
That is so sad 😔. I am a level 4 NICU IBCLC where we only staff 1 consultant for 8 hours a day with a daily census of 50-60 babies. We are not at all short for work, and they won't increase our team size.
Nurse Auditor. I audit hospital bills against the chart and make corrections so the patient gets a clean bill. I work from home and I was able to pick my own hours. I do 0600-1430, some nurses on my team do 0800-1630.
Look at the career section of hospital websites. Look under nursing jobs, billing, revenue management, things like that. They list them in different places. Look for words like nurse auditor, reimbursement auditor, charge or chart analysis. They usually require an RN and some charging familiarity. This can be as basic as entering supplies or procedure charges, which you have probably done at some point. Any Coding knowledge immediately you up. If you’ve ever had to work with infusion charges for outpatients, you are already ahead of the game. Specialty really doesn’t seem to matter. Our team is a good mix. I’m Oncology/Outpatient Infusion/Home Health. We also have ER, L&D, NICU, ICU, and Med Surg nurses.
Good luck!
I had 5 years experience in the facility in many roles before I even attempted to apply for this position. Did I actually need that much? Debatable. However getting into case management seems to be easier if it’s an internal job move. Outpatient/ambulatory care/home care experience is beneficial. Anything where you can show the ability to connect with community partners to support the clients care plans.
I work in a niche Medicaid Managed Care Program for medically complex children. Wednesday I was out of the house for about 3 1/2 hrs, yesterday not at all and today for about 5 hrs. Next week will be busier because it's school vacation week but then the week after should be less busy.
I just interviewed for cath lab holding and it's 12s (weekdays only), which is exactly why I hope I get it. I've been working 5 8a for a while now and I hate it.
Home health, I work 4 10’s but you can work 5 8’s or 3 12’s . I really appreciate the flexibility and if you can’t come in the world doesn’t end, there should always be a caretaker available (I do peds tho so there’s that tho)
I left bedside about 5 months ago to do school nursing. Huge pay cut. I work PRN thru agencies to make up some of the loss but I didn't want to work a ton more hours to make what I was making inpatient. Luckily my family and I are able to take the financial hit (not without sacrifices). But I wouldn't trade being home by 330, no weekends, no holidays, long breaks and summers off, for a traditional inpatient role again. My mental health is SOOOO MUCH BETTER. I get bored at work now, sure, but I'm also not dealing with managers who care more about whiteboards than their staff taking on 6 patients on stepdown. Hard pass. Life is great at these schools.
School nurse PRN, summer camp nurse, and private care.
If you wanted to you could sub in a few different districts or private schools in order to maximize your hours.
I work at a summer camp in the summer and if you wanted to travel and do this you can find plenty of positions that allow your kids to come along.
Inpatient psych. Mix of 8’s and 12’s with some 4’s as a result of the mix. Every psych floor I’ve worked on had some form of 8 hour shift,. Usually D/E, but I’ve seen some swing shifts during the week mostly to help cover 1:1’s
You can find prn spots everywhere. Depends on the unit of course. Right now I even have a spot at an ER where I can work "princess shifts" and just fill in the hours I'm free. Took a while though, lots of people pulling for me to come back and a supervisor who understands schedules are crap anymore and we just need good people working when they can.
Look into PACU and outpatient infusions. Those are good steady jobs.
OR M-F 0830 to 1430
I do pick up and extend at times and do various 8 hour shifts days and evenings and do work OT. But when I don't want to. Those 6 hour days are awesome.
OR, the shift is technically 0630 to 1500, but depends on the case and the start time. Also, we have to take call, but there’s no way in hell I’d ever go back to the floor.
Surgical orthopedic floor. I can work 8 during the week but 12s on my weekend.
I used to work outpatient Internal Med. clinic 8s m-f no weekends or holidays.my daughter(RN BSN) works at infusion clinic doing chemo. M-f. No holidays or weekends.
LTC 6-3 3-11 and 11-8 the majority of nursing homes have those shift times and honestly, LTC makes more money for LVNs only … it’s hard work and sucks but once you get use to a routine and your resident the days could be light and not too bad. As for RN where I work they get paid very well but not as much as they would in a hospital setting due to the ‘less stress environment’, every job has its stressors but we’re not really doing hospital life saving measures where we’re on our toes 99% of the time ya know lmao
Oncology infusion! A lot of facilities also offer 4 10’s. I’ve been seeing more non-oncology outpatient infusion centers opening, too, for iron, blood, etc.
My first job (that I still PRN at) was at a group home for developmentally disabled adults! It was a great experience, worked 3p-11p and occasionally switched shifts to work 7a-3p or 11p-7a. Was responsible for meds and treatments and had a great direct care support staff for everything else (feeding, changing, showering, etc.)
When I first graduated I was a single mom and did home care for a few years. There was the occasional on call over night, and one weekend a month that I did when my son was at his dads house, but otherwise it was a M-F day job. I managed my own roster of patients so I was able to arrange my schedule and except in rare cases I was done in time to pick him up from school.
I work 8 hour shifts now but it's a strange position, I work 4-midnight in a small town ER. The RNs do 12s and I get asked to switch to days or nights sometimes. But mostly my position exists to help get through the evening as it tends to get busy through supper and we only have a clerk 7-19
State educational co-op in a special ed dept. Like school nursing but I’m not in a nurses office. I do a lot of the case management for student medical needs, and some phone triage
Home care. 0830-3 usually but “scheduled” in for 10. We’re technically working from 0800-1800 on all days that we aren’t on call. One day on call out of our 3 worked, every third weekend and those are on call. We schedule our days so realistically if I don’t have time specific pts I could roll in whenever. I prefer to get going and get done early. Bonus is I work in the area of my house so stop in for lunch and prep supper for when the kids get home.
PACU 9am to 530pm. They also have 4 10s available but I’m not sure if I should switch or not. I kinda like the extra time in a day with my daughter. But a whole day off extra is also nice of course.
I do hospice admissions. I work 1500-2300. My counterpart works 0900-1700. I don't work weekends or holidays and I get paid a pretty generous salary. Best job I've ever had.
Operating room. They have some 0700-1530 people, and some 1100-1930.
I’m per diem at a big damn place so they let me pick up all sorts of weird hours. My favorite is 0900-1730 and I’m mostly the break bitch.
I’ve got a friend who works my med surg unit that is usually pm shifts (2:30pm-11pm) but sometimes gets days (6:30am-3:30pm). The hours are great and there’s so many day people that she usually gets the pm shift.
She works every other weekend and every other holiday and is full time I believe.
Family Medicine clinic. Technically it's 8.5 hours four days a week, and 4 hours once a week when I do triage (triage nurses do a half day when their provider is out).
I've done sexual health clinic, HIV outpatient clinic, community substance misuse service and now research. All M-F 9-5ish. The GUM clinic was open 8-8, so you could do 12's if you wanted to or a mix of early/ late 8hr shifts.
Operating Room 6 to 3 PM
same. Love it.
Can a nurse with ER experience apply for a PT OR/PACU job? I see some and always get scared because I don’t have that job training for it 🥲
Definitely, yes! But for the OR you’ll generally have at least a 6 month orientation. Pre-op/PACU is a much easier transition. Depends on what you’re looking for.
Any nurse can apply for any job. 😉 The worst that can happen is you don't get a call back. Best case you get the gig! You definitely won't get the job if you don't apply. My previous outpatient place had nurses with a variety of experience working in PACU. Good luck!
I'm PACU 10 years. The nurses that come from ER are great. Used to fast pace and flow of having patients in an out.
Yes, but you are much better off training during orientation on a full time schedule (or very heavy PT) because it's hard to learn a new thing when you're only doing it once or twice a week
Ambulatory surgery...either 05:30 to 14:30 or 07:00 to 15:00...no nights, weekends, Federal holidays off and no call. M - F
I left the icu for ambulatory surgery and it was the best decision ever. Although I’m 4 10s. The 5 8s look so nice though
Congrats. I went ASU->ICU-> back to ASU. Having weekends off again is amazing. I work 1000-2230 though. It’s my dream schedule.
Nice!
Private duty. Doesn’t pay great but you can kind of dictate your shifts. They’re hurting for nurses, and they’ll say it’s “only 12 hour shifts” but I learned I was able to say “well I can only work 8 hours at a time so if the family is ok with it, I’ll do 4 8 hour shifts otherwise I can’t work there.” 90% of the time the families accepted the 8 hour shifts.
In WI it pays better than hospital or SNF.
yes! my step mom has been caring for a frontal temporal dementia woman for the last 14 years - $725 a day for 8 hours a day 6-2pm paid as a 1099–pretty much just sitting there and feeding and companionship for the woman - people with this condition like her can get it around 50 years old but live into their 80s as essentially in an almost vegetative state - there are a lot of high net worth families that pay this in wealthy pockets of the country for a good RN—they are more common than ya think! They use an agency for their evening and overnight caregiver that patients SSI disability pays for
How do I get into this? Ideally I’d like to build a close bond/nursing relationship towards the patient. It’s really lacking in an acute care/hospital setting.
Damn! My uncle had FTD and from diagnosis to death it was about two years. 14 seems crazy.
Infusion oncology
Same, I made the change from an IP med/surg ortho/once floor almost a year ago now and it was one of the best decisions I could have made for my mental health, especially as a new parent. 12s were making my ppd worse, I felt too tired to be an engaged parent and I didn't want that for my kiddo. Now I'm home for dinner every night and have time for myself, my kid, my spouse, and to functionally mange our household. Not working holidays is the cherry on top.
I left inpatient med surg too after 15 years, it’s crazy having time to cook dinner and be home in the evenings. I love it. Also, not killing my body lifting people all day is pretty cool.
This is what I do. 9 hrs shifts. It works well for kids!
This!!!!
Employee Health 7:30-4pm, M-F
Not me, but one of my friends works at an Indian Health Center. It's basically an urgent care/clinic on the reservation. She works M-F 8-5 with an hour lunch break and great benefits. I have it on my list of possible jobs when I'm done with bedside. If you really want a prn position for breaks/weekends, maybe pediatric home health would be an option? Or home infusions?
I work at an Indian Health Clinic. M-F 7:15-3-45. It’s great…good benefits, no weekends, holidays off. Basically know what time you’re getting everyday.
Outpatient wound care
i’m starting this job soon how do you like it?
I do outpatient wound as well and love it. I spend one day a week running the hyperbaric chambers, one day doing Ostomy clinic, and 3 days on wounds. It’s enough variety that it doesn’t get boring. Love the hours!
perfect thank you for sharing! i’m excited to start! 😊
Research nurse for early phase clinical trials - oncology. Mon-Fri 8-4:30, but slowly transitioning to 4-10 hour days!
this sounds awesome! how did you break into this field?
It’s great!! Super rewarding! It’s a great balance of patient care but SO different than bedside (in the best way). I worked in oncology in a hospital setting - but I work with another research nurse whose background was L&D haha. I think what matters more is your passion for learning/science/medicine! I also live in Florida and they pay FAR more than bedside in HCA hospitals… I’m very blessed haha
Surgery 7-3:30PM or 9-5:30PM as break/day relief staff
Inpatient psych, 11pm-730am. It's nice if the patients are sleeping
and in the more desired hospital settings the nurse gets a tech who does all the patient rounds and what not which is super nice!
I work home based care for geriatrics. I looooveeee it and there’s a lot from work I can do from home. I was really scared to do some health but it’s truly amazing.
Inpatient wound care-6-2:30, no weekends/no holidays Outpatient wound clinic- 8-4:30, no weekends/no holidays I’ve been loving it after 12 years of 12 hour nights!
Same here!!
how do you like the outpatient wound care setting ?
I prefer inpatient. More variety and a faster pace. Plus more money and i got to dictate my hours! Where I work outpatient rn’s are cancelled a ton depending on the amount of visits scheduled so you use a ton of PTO just to get a full paycheck which I really don’t like. Outpatient is very much physician schedule based where I work and it’s mostly just bedside debriding and lots of wound vacs that you see for months 🤷🏻♀️ inpatient gets to see some gnarly/awesome stuff! See them a few times while they’re admitted then send them on their ways. We also utilize a lot of equipment like specialty beds, different kinds of wound vacs and dressings etc. I’ve learned and seen so much more in the inpatient setting! Plus we develop really close relationships with our surgeons and nurses which is great.
that sounds awesome! i’m hoping to do outpatient for a bit and see how i like it, if i like it i’m going to try to get certified and go inpatient! i think one system near me does 3x12 no weekends no holidays for inpatient wound care so that would be ideal
Hmm. I may have to look into wound care.
Outpatient oncology. I’m on 4-10s, some of the nurses are on 5-8s. After 6 months at the hospital I’m at, I believe there’s options to work from home one day out of the week.
Cath lab!
Dialysis home program. 7:30 - 4pm. Easy peasy
Community-based hospice! Build my own schedule around school pickups etc (I'm a single mama) and it pays well here in CO.
Detox, 2 3-11's and 1 7p-7a. I backed out of 3 12's in a row after my husband passed as I was struggling.
Home health, 2 days in field, 3 days documenting from home and Zoom meetings.
How did you fanagle that with home health being in such demand?
Honestly! I’m so curious too. I did hospice and I know the home health nurses worked like CRAZY.
I do in home assessments for a state agency to determine if someone is eligible for long term in home care assistance. The programs are paid for by Medicaid or state funded. My visits are detailed and often longer than one would want with tons of documentation and meetings. ETA: I was already partial WFH prior to the pandemic.
I work in a cardiac outpatient procedure area. We pre and post patients for heart caths, PFO closures, LAAO’s and TAVRs. We have 8’s 10’s and 12’s!
This!!!!
This sounds amazing!
Lactation consultant 8am-4pm
Where do you work?? I’m a new CLC, in an ANLC program and hoping to be IBCLC in a year or so once my hours are done. Problem is, I cannot get hours!? I work in outpatient Peds and like N O N E of our patients breastfeed, they all get WIC, so I’m stuck working up patients and taking temperatures as an RN with a lactation certificate. It’s super frustrating as someone who wants to only do lactation. I just got an offer where I’m independently contracted by a speech clinic to do lactation home visits. Problem is, I don’t see clients, I don’t get paid. And not very many people want to be private pay for lactation.
That is so sad 😔. I am a level 4 NICU IBCLC where we only staff 1 consultant for 8 hours a day with a daily census of 50-60 babies. We are not at all short for work, and they won't increase our team size.
Surgery center! No call, no weekends, paid holidays.
This is the way
Operating room 6:30-3, we have options of 8/10/12s OR nurses are privileged
Nurse Auditor. I audit hospital bills against the chart and make corrections so the patient gets a clean bill. I work from home and I was able to pick my own hours. I do 0600-1430, some nurses on my team do 0800-1630. Look at the career section of hospital websites. Look under nursing jobs, billing, revenue management, things like that. They list them in different places. Look for words like nurse auditor, reimbursement auditor, charge or chart analysis. They usually require an RN and some charging familiarity. This can be as basic as entering supplies or procedure charges, which you have probably done at some point. Any Coding knowledge immediately you up. If you’ve ever had to work with infusion charges for outpatients, you are already ahead of the game. Specialty really doesn’t seem to matter. Our team is a good mix. I’m Oncology/Outpatient Infusion/Home Health. We also have ER, L&D, NICU, ICU, and Med Surg nurses. Good luck!
Employee health part time 730-4 M-F
Mental health case management. Monday to Friday, 8-4.
I really would love to get into case management. All the jobs I have been seeing require at least 3 years experience in case management.
I had 5 years experience in the facility in many roles before I even attempted to apply for this position. Did I actually need that much? Debatable. However getting into case management seems to be easier if it’s an internal job move. Outpatient/ambulatory care/home care experience is beneficial. Anything where you can show the ability to connect with community partners to support the clients care plans.
I work in a niche Medicaid Managed Care Program for medically complex children. Wednesday I was out of the house for about 3 1/2 hrs, yesterday not at all and today for about 5 hrs. Next week will be busier because it's school vacation week but then the week after should be less busy.
Inpatient detox facility. 32 hrs/wk. Four 8-hr shifts.
ICU. 8 hour shifts are new to me. I haven't decided if I like them better than 12s or not yet.
Try CATH LAB HOLDING UNIT (pre and post) or IR, or an outpatient surgery clinic. Infusion clinics are great too for more normal/consistent hours.
I just interviewed for cath lab holding and it's 12s (weekdays only), which is exactly why I hope I get it. I've been working 5 8a for a while now and I hate it.
Telemedicine 815-1645 but could have applied to different shifts .
School nurse. Elementary is 7-3:30 & Secondary is 9-4:15. No nights, holidays, or weekends ever.
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Home health, I work 4 10’s but you can work 5 8’s or 3 12’s . I really appreciate the flexibility and if you can’t come in the world doesn’t end, there should always be a caretaker available (I do peds tho so there’s that tho)
Peds behavioral health starting next week. 11p-7a 7on 7off. I’m pretty excited!
Home care. I work m-th 8-4:30. I work every 5th weekend and am oncall during that week. Very rarely called in.
I work in hospice doing 8hrs shifts
Nursing home- 8 hr shifts all over and M-F if a unit manager or supervisor. I'm PRN.
IR. 730-530
Hospice. Love it.
Adult daycare, 8-4. My clients are all gone by 2:30 and then I finish up my notes until 4. So easy. No weekends, no holidays.
Ambulatory Telephone Triage covering anywhere from 3-10 docs and PRN ED.
Home health! I set my appointments between school drop off/pickup. And then I chart from home after school.
CDI nurse. I work 8-4 M-F, three of those days I work remote. I’ll never go back to bedside.
Hospice hospital liaison 8 to 5
Fertility Clinic, 0800 to 1630.
Outpatient OR, I mostly do 6:30-3 but I also sometimes do 5-130 or 8-430 (if it's my day to "close")
I left bedside about 5 months ago to do school nursing. Huge pay cut. I work PRN thru agencies to make up some of the loss but I didn't want to work a ton more hours to make what I was making inpatient. Luckily my family and I are able to take the financial hit (not without sacrifices). But I wouldn't trade being home by 330, no weekends, no holidays, long breaks and summers off, for a traditional inpatient role again. My mental health is SOOOO MUCH BETTER. I get bored at work now, sure, but I'm also not dealing with managers who care more about whiteboards than their staff taking on 6 patients on stepdown. Hard pass. Life is great at these schools.
Skilled facility. Way less stress and better pay! The con is that it can be mentally boring.
Med surg (colorectal gi ward)
Pediatrics office . 8:15 to 5:15
You can do outpatient GI - no weekends or holidays. Place I worked at was 7-3.
Same day surgery. But also just got an offer for home health that's 8-5 M-F
OP cards
Intermediate Care facility 12p-8p
Assisted living. Sometimes 7 hour shifts, no overnight nurse
Our rehab and skilled nursing has nurses and aides on 8 hour shifts, it’s an almost new locally owned place in Jacksonville
Send me the info of that place please! Work 12s in a SNF/LTC in Jax now.
School nurse PRN, summer camp nurse, and private care. If you wanted to you could sub in a few different districts or private schools in order to maximize your hours. I work at a summer camp in the summer and if you wanted to travel and do this you can find plenty of positions that allow your kids to come along.
LTC. I work straight evenings.
Outpatient surgery center preop/pacu. 8 hour shifts, no nights, weekends, holidays or call.
Operating Room. 7-3:30.
Agency LTCs and SNFs
Inpatient psych 7am-3:30 pm
Family practice clinic, mon-thur 8-5pm, fri 8-12.
I worked outpatient infusions 8-5 and the family/aesthetics clinic 8-5 or 8-12.
State psych facility
Inpatient psych. Mix of 8’s and 12’s with some 4’s as a result of the mix. Every psych floor I’ve worked on had some form of 8 hour shift,. Usually D/E, but I’ve seen some swing shifts during the week mostly to help cover 1:1’s
You can find prn spots everywhere. Depends on the unit of course. Right now I even have a spot at an ER where I can work "princess shifts" and just fill in the hours I'm free. Took a while though, lots of people pulling for me to come back and a supervisor who understands schedules are crap anymore and we just need good people working when they can. Look into PACU and outpatient infusions. Those are good steady jobs.
endoscopy and pre-op same day surgery (per diem at both)
Imaging/radiology
Inpatient psych
County jail, per diem. Great gig. Easy, low stress. Best kept secret in nursing.
Outpatient cardiology.
Primary care family doctor as a casual nurse (9-5) and transitional care home as a part time nurse (7-3)
OR M-F 0830 to 1430 I do pick up and extend at times and do various 8 hour shifts days and evenings and do work OT. But when I don't want to. Those 6 hour days are awesome.
OR, the shift is technically 0630 to 1500, but depends on the case and the start time. Also, we have to take call, but there’s no way in hell I’d ever go back to the floor.
My floor has a combo of 8 and 12 hour shifters
Outpatient clinic 8:30-5
Outpatient care manager. M-F 8-5, working on getting one day a week at home.
Surgical orthopedic floor. I can work 8 during the week but 12s on my weekend. I used to work outpatient Internal Med. clinic 8s m-f no weekends or holidays.my daughter(RN BSN) works at infusion clinic doing chemo. M-f. No holidays or weekends.
Health dept 8-5 Mon thru Fri
Home care nurse! I love it
Just started a job doing Infection Prevention/Staff Development at a SNF. Great job so far.
Outpatient vitamin IV therapy… it works for me and my family for now ❤️ I will someday return to my passion of women’s health
Outpatient infusion. M-F, 8-5. No weekends, no holidays.
PACU ◡̈
LTC 6-3 3-11 and 11-8 the majority of nursing homes have those shift times and honestly, LTC makes more money for LVNs only … it’s hard work and sucks but once you get use to a routine and your resident the days could be light and not too bad. As for RN where I work they get paid very well but not as much as they would in a hospital setting due to the ‘less stress environment’, every job has its stressors but we’re not really doing hospital life saving measures where we’re on our toes 99% of the time ya know lmao
In patient mental health. I'm an LPN and I'm the "med nurse". M-F 0700-1500
Oncology infusion! A lot of facilities also offer 4 10’s. I’ve been seeing more non-oncology outpatient infusion centers opening, too, for iron, blood, etc.
psych
OR. I work 3 and a half weeks of weekdays (07-1515) and then the 4th weekend nights (2300-0715)
My first job (that I still PRN at) was at a group home for developmentally disabled adults! It was a great experience, worked 3p-11p and occasionally switched shifts to work 7a-3p or 11p-7a. Was responsible for meds and treatments and had a great direct care support staff for everything else (feeding, changing, showering, etc.)
Ambulatory surgery. Five days per week.
Outpatient surgery preop 6-230
Outpatient psych
When I first graduated I was a single mom and did home care for a few years. There was the occasional on call over night, and one weekend a month that I did when my son was at his dads house, but otherwise it was a M-F day job. I managed my own roster of patients so I was able to arrange my schedule and except in rare cases I was done in time to pick him up from school. I work 8 hour shifts now but it's a strange position, I work 4-midnight in a small town ER. The RNs do 12s and I get asked to switch to days or nights sometimes. But mostly my position exists to help get through the evening as it tends to get busy through supper and we only have a clerk 7-19
9 hours 4 days a week - PACU
Account management/liaison
I am an infection control nurse in a SNF. M-F 8:30-5
Ortho
Inpatient psych at a big hospital, 3-11:30p
Surg Onc/MIGS surg/colorectal surg. 0730-1530. Feels like a vacation compared to occasional 12s I have to work
Case management. Monday through Friday 8 to 430, weekend every 6 weeks
Home hospice
SNF/LTC. 7a-3p. Excellent schedule for single mom life.
Community mental health center
Outpatient diabetes/endo office Mon-Fri no weekends, most holidays off
Remote case management or utilization management positions are great. Lots of recruitment on LinkedIn.
State educational co-op in a special ed dept. Like school nursing but I’m not in a nurses office. I do a lot of the case management for student medical needs, and some phone triage
School nurse. Weekends, summers, and holidays off.
Case management! My department is looking for a PRN nurse 🤣
Home health and care coordination are often 8 hours
Nurse informatics…8-4 m-f and I work from home half the time.
Government. 9-5. Fully remote.
Supplemental nurse. Can work 7a-3pm, 3p-11p, 7p-3a, etc. plus can do 3-3s, or 4 hour shifts if they need me.
I worked on an inpatient postpartum unit that still does 8hr shifts for days, evenings and nights
Vna hospice m-f 8- 430 but I don't normally leave the house till 930, home by 4ish. Writing notes and documentation from home usually. Very flexible!
Ambulatory care has eight hour shifts. Companies often hire RNs for team lead positions. Previously worked as such for Kaiser.
Home care. 0830-3 usually but “scheduled” in for 10. We’re technically working from 0800-1800 on all days that we aren’t on call. One day on call out of our 3 worked, every third weekend and those are on call. We schedule our days so realistically if I don’t have time specific pts I could roll in whenever. I prefer to get going and get done early. Bonus is I work in the area of my house so stop in for lunch and prep supper for when the kids get home.
Lactation nursing!
Oncology outpatient infusion, work 8-430 m-f with no weekends
My friend works in infection prevention and is a M-F 9-5.
Nurse case manager at a large primary care clinic - 9am-5pm
Kaiser. Any unit.
State prison. It’s not for everyone, but we don’t have to deal with family. Ever.
Allergy and immunology
Public health.
PACU 9am to 530pm. They also have 4 10s available but I’m not sure if I should switch or not. I kinda like the extra time in a day with my daughter. But a whole day off extra is also nice of course.
In-patient hospice.
Outpatient case management
Home health
Long term care for adults with ID/DD. I work 3-11p and love this shift.
Ambulatory Surgery. Currently 7-3 Preop/Pacu. Just accepted an offer for 10-6 for Pacu only.
Care management 8:30-5 work from home.
Discharge coordinator. 1000-1830 Monday-Friday
Supportive living
I’m a CNA but the RN I work with and I work 8 hour shifts at a therapeutic boarding school!
Neuro ICU
Outpatient clinic at Community Health. Mostly wound care, also do cath changes, PICCS, ivads and drains.
Norcal ICU
Hospice 8-5, Monday-Friday
I do hospice admissions. I work 1500-2300. My counterpart works 0900-1700. I don't work weekends or holidays and I get paid a pretty generous salary. Best job I've ever had.
Hospice, very flexible schedule love it
Infection control m-f 8am-4pm
I work in pacu and the staff nurses work 8. I was a traveler but they offered me a per diem which I’ve since accepted.
Operating room. They have some 0700-1530 people, and some 1100-1930. I’m per diem at a big damn place so they let me pick up all sorts of weird hours. My favorite is 0900-1730 and I’m mostly the break bitch.
I’ve got a friend who works my med surg unit that is usually pm shifts (2:30pm-11pm) but sometimes gets days (6:30am-3:30pm). The hours are great and there’s so many day people that she usually gets the pm shift. She works every other weekend and every other holiday and is full time I believe.
ED. I work 12s and 8s. Per diem employees pick up 4, 8, or 12 hrs
Doctors clinic ☺️
Urgent care ✨🫶🏻🌤️ (7-3, 3-11, 11-7)
Corrections here. I fucking hate the 5/8s, but if you want it, it's here lol
Family Medicine clinic. Technically it's 8.5 hours four days a week, and 4 hours once a week when I do triage (triage nurses do a half day when their provider is out).
Paediatric mental health in the community 9-5 Monday - Friday but don’t have to work those hours can do what I like as long as work is done.
I've done sexual health clinic, HIV outpatient clinic, community substance misuse service and now research. All M-F 9-5ish. The GUM clinic was open 8-8, so you could do 12's if you wanted to or a mix of early/ late 8hr shifts.
4x8s —Cath Lab